Animated Dragon Pg 3
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. . . . .Remember to save often. . . . .- Turn off the visibility to all layers except 14 and the background layers. Click on the background layer to activate it then add a new layer named text.
- Apply your text in a large enough size to accomodate your name and still look good (I used 100 pt)>. Move the text up under the dragon so that it looks like the dragon is resting on it, making sure that the right foot rests on a letter. See the example below.
- Drag the horizonal guide down so that it rests on the text. Make note of a letter and its position on the guide. Use this letter as a guide when you position the other layers of text (I chose the Y). See the example below.
- Duplicate the text layer 14 times. Move the texts layers up under each of the numbered layers. Turn on visibility of all layers except the original text layer and the background layer. Your layers palette should look something like this:

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- Now duplicate the background layer 14 times. Move the background layers up under the text layers. Your layer palette should look something like this:

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- Click on layer 14 to activate it then hit the merge down button
twice. Now click on layer 13 and hit the merge down button twice. Repeat this until all the number layers and the text layers are merged down onto the background layers. Your layers palette should look something like this:
- Now duplicate the original text layer 7 times. Leave the top text layer alone (shown in red below). Go to the layer below it (indicated in yellow) and move the text to the left slightly. Go down to the next text layer and move it slightly further than the first layer. Continue this and when you get to the original text layer just a portion of the last letter should show. Something like this:

- Duplicate the background layer 8 times. Move 7 of the layers up under the text layers as shown below:

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- Click on the top text layer and merge it down onto the background layer. Click on the next text layer and merge it down. Repeat this with each of the remaining layers. The original background layer will not be merged. Your palette should now look like this:

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- Make sure visibility is turned on for all layers and save as a .pspimage. Bring up Animation shop and open your image in it.
- Zoom in so that you can see all or most of the frames. Hold the shift key and click on frame F:1 then on F:8 to select them. Then press alt+enter, change the frame properties to 5.
- Click on F:9, alt+enter, change frame properties to 200.
- Hold the shift key and click on F:21 then on F:23, alt+enter, change frame properties to 200.
- Now if you want to resize it go to Animation->resize animation and resize it to your liking.
- Now go to file->Save and save it. I like using the default settings but you can use any setting you want.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to .
